{"id":656729,"date":"2026-10-25T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/656729\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:00:14","slug":"ebola-outbreak-update-as-of-october-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/656729\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak update as of October 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of October 23, 2026, 60 new confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported across four provinces: North Kivu (29 cases), Ituri (28 cases), Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9 (2 cases), and Tshopo (1 case). Among these, 31 community deaths were recorded (17 in North Kivu, 13 in Ituri, and 1 in Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9).<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, 15 confirmed deaths were registered in Ebola Treatment Centers (ETCs) (9 in Ituri, 4 in North Kivu, and 2 in Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9), bringing the total number of confirmed deaths reported during this period to 46.<\/p>\n

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Additionally, 28 patients (17 in Ituri and 11 in North Kivu) have been declared recovered following two consecutive negative EVD test results; no recoveries were reported in Haut-U\u00e9l\u00e9, Tshopo, or Bas-U\u00e9l\u00e9.<\/p>\n

As of October 23, 2026, the DRC has recorded a cumulative total of 9,876 confirmed cases, including 4,803 deaths, representing a case fatality rate of 48.6%. The province of Ituri remains the epicenter, accounting for 72.2% of all reported confirmed cases and 46.7% of the new confirmed cases.<\/p>\n

No new health zones have been affected in the last 24 hours. Consequently, 66 out of 178 health zones (37.1%), spread across eight provinces, have been affected since the beginning of the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of October 23, 2026, 60 new confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-656729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}